Pea sheller



June ll, 1935- J. A. GALLEY Er AL PEA SHELLER Filed sept. 20, 193s Patented June l1, 1935 PATENT OFFICE PEA summa John Alfred. Galley, Edgeclm.

and Ernest Valentn North Sydney, New South New South Wales, e Galley, Milsons Point,

Wales, Australia Application September 20, 1933, Serial No. 690,272 In Australia March 31, 1933 3 Claims.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved and more simple device for the separation of peas from their pods, than has hitherto been devised. A pea-Sheller according to this invention is of the type in which the full pods are rolled and spit open by progression between a series of endless bands and a fixed grid through which the separated peas fall, the empty pods being discharged from the end of the grid.

In the present invention simplicity and compactness combined with efliciency are aimed at, and these desiderata are obtained in a pea sheller as hereinafter described with reference to the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a complete machine according to a preferred embodiment of the invention.

Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation thereof, and

Fig. 3 is a cross sectional elevation on line 3, 3 of Fig. 2.

The operative parts of the machine are mounted on a frame comprising two parallel cheekplates 20, 20 on which is rotatably mounted a shaft or spindle 2l tted at one end with a crankhandle 22. On the shaft is a drum 23 carrying on its periphery a tread or band 24 of rubber which is formed with a. plurality of spaced circumferential ribs 25, 25. These ribs are notched or serrated on their edges as shown at 2B.

Fitted in the frame and between the cheekplates is an arcuate shaped grid partially encompassing and spaced from the drum 24, said grid comprising solid end portions 21 and 211 with intermediate spaced bars 212 in register respectively with the spaces between the rubber ribs A feed chute 34 is tted to the frame extension 201 and is arranged with a downward inclination towards the roller 30. From the bottom of the 34 there extend aplurality of spaced lingers 35 registering with the spaces between the teeth 3| of roller 30, so that said teeth may pass between them as the roller 30 rotates. The fingers 5 prevent pods from the chute 34 from falling (Cl. 13o-30) through the space between the lower end of the bottom of the chute and the roller 30.

In operation, a quantity series of ngers 38 registering respectively with the spaces between the ribs 25. These fingers act as Scrapers to remove matter which may otherwise adhere to the ribs 25.

1. A pea-shelling device comprising a framin a drum rotatably mounted 'g between said escape of peas removed from the 2. A pea-shelling device comprising a framing, in said framing, means ject oppositely to said rib-teeth, and apertures bematerial with serrated inner edges, a pea-receivtween said grid bars to permit escape of peas ing chute underlying said grid, a plurality of removed from pods positively rolled between said fingers arranged tangentially to the drum and ribs and bars by the said oppcsitely disposed sets registering respectively with the spaces between of teeth during rotation of the drum. the ribs thereon, said fingers serving as scrapers 3. A pea-shelling device comprising, in combito remove matter adhering to the drum and ribs, nation, a frame having two spaced parallel cheek and feeding means mounted above said drum in plates, a shaft rotatably mounted in said cheek an upward extension of the frame, said feeding plates and spanning the space between them, a means comprising a feed-chute (to receive a drum fitted on said shaft and located between quantity of full pods) and a rotatable feed-roller said cheek-plates, an endless band of rubber on formed with longitudinal spaced rows of spaced the periphery of said drum, on said band a pluteeth, said roller being geared to the shaft carrality of spaced circumferential ribs in parallel rying the drum of the device, a guard consisting arrangement and having notched or serratedpeof a series of fingers attached to the feed chute ripheral edges, means for rotating said shaft and at the end adjacent said roller, said fingers being drum, an arcuate-shaped grid underlying and tangential to the roller and registering respectivepartially encompassing said drum and band but ly with the interspaces of the teeth thereon, said spaced therefrom, said grid consisting of solid end roller receiving pods successively from the feed portions supported by the frame and a plurality chute and discharging them to fall on to the ribs of spaced bars in parallel arrangement extending on the drum.` between said end portions, said bars registering JOHN ALFRED GALLEY. respectively with the interspaces between the ribs ERNEST VALENTINE GALLEY. on the drum, on said grid bars strips of resilient 

